Computer Retrieval of Information on Scientific Projects

NIH CRISP Data 1972-1995

Source Lichtenberg

The NIH CRISP (Computer Retrieval of Information on Scientific Projects) is a searchable database of federally funded biomedical research projects conducted at universities, hospitals, and other research institutions.

These data are described in

"The Allocation of Public Funds for Biomedical R&D," Frank R. Lichtenberg, The AEI Press, 1999

ALL USERS OF THE DATA SHOULD READ THIS PAPER AND CITE IT AS THE SOURCE OF THE DATA

The source grant data files are quite large. There are 1972 file has 1,707,365 lines and the 1995 file has 3,954,179 lines.
The CSV files contain the grant number (in three parts), amount, description codes, description emphasis (primary, secondary, tertiary) and text description.
2-N01-AH04094-04.txt is the first grant from the 1972 source grant file. 2-N01-AH04094-04.csv shows how it is represented in the CSV file.
Grants can also be viewed online at http://crisp.cit.nih.gov

1995 is the last year for this data because it is the last year the amount of the grant was included in NIH CRISP.

To download files in Internet Explorer, right click on them and select "Save Target As...".

Updates and changes.

CRISP Thesaurus and Tree

The CRISP thesaurus history shows which description codes are used when and their text description.

The 1996 CRISP thesaurus tree CSV file and original TXT file shows how the codes are arranged hierarchically.

This SAS program was used to read the data.

Year	Source Grant Data	Description Codes and Amounts in Comma-separated variable CSV files
1972	FY1972.Z	1972.csv
1973	FY1973.Z	1973.csv
1974	FY1974.Z	1974.csv
1975	FY1975.Z	1975.csv
1976	FY1976.Z	1976.csv
1977	FY1977.Z	1977.csv
1978	FY1978.Z	1978.csv
1979	FY1979.Z	1979.csv
1980	FY1980.Z	1980.csv
1981	FY1981.Z	1981.csv
1982	FY1982.Z	1982.csv
1983	FY1983.Z	1983.csv
1984	FY1984.Z	1984.csv
1985	FY1985.Z	1985.csv
1986	FY1986.Z	1986.csv
1987	FY1987.Z	1987.csv
1988	FY1988.Z	1988.csv
1989	FY1989.Z	1989.csv
1990	FY1990.Z	1990.csv
1991	FY1991.Z	1991.csv
1992	FY1992.Z	1992.csv
1993	FY1993.Z	1993.csv
1994	FY1994.Z	1994.csv
1995	FY1995.Z	1995.csv